Tag: sibert award

All this chatter about the various ALA challenges going on in 2012 made me long for a few more nonfiction books on my to-read list. And although the Sibert Informational Medal hasn’t been around for that long, I realized I’ve read woefully few of the winners and honor recipients.

So I present to you this year’s Sibert Challenge, which you can find on Twitter as #nerdibert.

I’m not quite sure how to facilitate something like this, so I suppose I should ask you to please post any links to your versions of the challenge in the comments section. Here’s the complete list of award recipients, taken from the ALA site. For now, I’ll say that I’ll attempt to read them chronologically. If I’ve read a book, I’ve linked it to my Goodreads review.

Winner: Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado. Written by Marc Aronson.

Honor: Blizzard! The Storm That Changed America. Written by Jim Murphy.

Honor: The Longitude Prize. Written by Joan Dash. Illustrated by Dusan Petricic.

Honor: My Season with Penguins: An Antarctic Journal. Written by Sophie Webb.

Honor: Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned. Written by Judd Winick.

Winner: Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850. Written by Susan Campbell Bartoletti.

Honor: Brooklyn Bridge. Written by Lynn Curlee.

Honor: Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps. Written by Andrea Warren.

Honor: Vincent van Gogh. Written by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan.

Winner: The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler. Written by James Cross Giblin.

Honor: Action Jackson. Written by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan. Illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker.

Honor: Hole in My Life. Written by Jack Gantos.

Honor: Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929.
Written by Karen Blumenthal.

Honor: When Marian Sang. Written by Pam Munoz Ryan. Illustrated by Brian Selznick.